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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1908
Page
4
A fragmented kitchen page lists recipes and methods for Creole style meals including tomato based dressings, fake crab, beef stews, apple charlotte, potato and celery bake, sweet potato croquettes, and a humorous aside about house doors. It references browning butter, baking times, and small details like bread soaked in butter and cheese gratins.
A lively column notes near autumn, local events, and upcoming happenings. Readers anticipate dances at Braddock Heights, a concert at the Opera House, the Nickeldrame shows, and religious observances. Mentions Frederick fair preparations, political activity, and community plans through late September.
Quotations list farm prices for grains and feeds including corn yellow and white ear and shelled, oats, timothy, mixed hay, wheat, rye, buckwheat, bran, meal, and pet foods. prices shown per bushel, per ton, or per hundred. some items include range figures and quality grades. advertisement includes an odd intrusion about Dr Kluge and a promotional line.
The piece lists grocery prices for eggs butter poultry fruit and more with scattered notes on black market style items. It then shifts to a verse about Africa and colonization themes followed by a sports anecdote about a cricket match at Germantown Club and a joke about a mayor’s innings.
Mex Abby Reason’s will probate reveals Governor Vott inherits 250000 as residuary bequest. The deceased, a close Watt family friend, left directions amid a troubled scene in East Orange and McKeesport. Police report suicide attempts and violent incidents tied to local jail and crime cases in Bloomingdale and West Berwick.
Benjamin Le Spence former City Auditor pleads guilty in the court of general sessions to embezzling 1212 dollars of city funds. He says no money was spent by him or his family and requests leniency. He is sentenced to one year in the county workhouse.
The death of James W. Paul, 57, banker with Dreger & Co and Morgan firms in Philadelphia and Paris, was reported from Hot Springs Virginia by FE T. Stotenbury. Cause listed as apoplexy.
In Syracuse a Centenary Methodist Episcopal church nursery opens to soothe babies during services. Pastor Rev Ernest Lyn Waldorf launched the soundproof, eight-baby facility with toys and a medicine cabinet, inviting all mothers and families to attend with their children. Fathers praised the move, noting it lets them participate and share in religious experience without worry.
Southern California farmers and ranchers in Delano Kern County plan an October 6 rabbit drive to slaughter an estimated 25,000 to 100,000 jackrabbits. A holiday barbecue will accompany the event as hunters form a line across the countryside to corral rabbits for shipment to Rio Francisco and Los Angeles markets. The pest has damaged crops and hindered vineyard efforts in Kern County.
An article extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for women's ailments. It cites Mrs Bertha Muff of Louisiana MO, praising complete health restoration after years of suffering, and urges others to seek the remedy and Pinkham's guidance.
In early English writings tea is extolled as a universal remedy with widespread health claims. A Mercurius Politicus notice touts Cilua drink teia as approved by physicians, while a British Museum broad sheet lists many virtues for the remedy.
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